Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with a Slate spoiler special on Up in the Air, the new Jason Reitman movie.

In the studio with me today are Dan Cois.

Hello, Dan.

Hey, Dana.

Who is a blogger for New York Magazine's Vulture Blog, also writes for Trucelant, and writes film reviews for the Washington Post.

Have I covered it all?

And also, I have a book coming out.

Oh, yes, please plug your book. Called Facing Future for Continuum's 33 and a third series of music criticism

about the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamaka Vival. I can't wait to see that, because I love those 33 and a

third books. They're like little monographs, right? I mean, it's a short little thing.

They're adorable little books about individual albums. And can you explain just

briefly who the Hawaiian musician is? He's the guy who sings that version of Somewhere Over the

Rainbow. What a Wonderful World, accompanied by the ukulele that you've heard in 10,000 movies.

Oh my God, that's great. That's a great person to write a monograph about it. I love it.

And also joining me today in the studio is John Swansberg. Hello, John. Hey, good to be here. Slate's Culture Editor.

And so, we all saw the movie in the last few days.

And I wanted to start off with you, John, because you had this observation about this remarkable

up-in-the-air phenomenon where your enjoyment of the movie dropped precipitously the day after seeing it.

But I think you and I both had a really good time in the movie. Yeah, we walked out and we were both pretty elated, I thought.

Yeah, in the immediate aftermath of having seen it, I was very pleased.

Throughout the viewing experience, I found it enjoyable.

Although I did even in the movie start to feel it was a little bit too long.

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